Peregrine Honig

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Peregrine Honig
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Born (1976-10-03) October 3, 1976 (age 49)
San Francisco, California
Alma mater Kansas City Art Institute,
Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts
Known for Work of Art: The Next Great Artist
Spouse Mike Dillon

Peregrine Honig (born October 3, 1976) is an American artist. Honig's work is concerned with the relationship between pop culture, sexual vulnerability, social anxieties, the ethics of luxury, and trends in consumerism. [1]

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Early life and education

Honig was born in San Francisco, California [2] in 1976. [3] She attended the Kansas City Art Institute. [4]

Career

In 1997, Honig started Fahrenheit Gallery, an artist-run space in Kansas City's industrial West Bottoms, where she showed artists with national and international reputations and inspired other young Kansas City artists to do the same. [5]

Honig appeared on season one of Bravo's artist reality television show, Work of Art: The Next Great Artist , [6] which aired from June 9–August 11, 2010, finishing in second place. [7] She advanced to the final round, where she took second place after winner Abdi Farah and second runner-up, Miles Mendenhall. [8]

Works

Early sexual awakenings, the visual manifestation of disease, and the social anxieties of realized and fictional characters reveal themselves through Peregrine Honig's drawings and paintings. [9] Her work is in the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art [10] , the Art Institute of Chicago, [11] and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. [12]

Activism

While Honig's work expands beyond art and into activism through her businesses All is Fair in Love and Wear, and Birdies she was quoted as saying, "I identify as an artist, not an activist." [13]

In 2016 Honig launched a Kickstarter to support the new business All is Fair in Love and Wear where 175 backers pledged $25,550. Honig has been credited with the creation of the original "We don't care" bathroom sign. [14] After installing the original sign outside the restroom in Birdies, Honig sold copies of the original sign to 21C Durham, North Carolina to protest bill HB2 [13] . She has since indicated that the sale of these signs brought in the money needed to begin creating binder prototypes for All is Fair in Love and Wear. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "The Pews Went, but the Spirit Stayed in a Kansas City Church - The New York Times". The New York Times . May 8, 2018. Archived from the original on May 8, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  2. ↑ "About Peregrine Honig". Peregrine Honig. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Honig, Peregrine". Getty Research. Retrieved March 10, 2025.
  4. ↑ Zell, Valarie (January 23, 2004). "2 views of beauty". Kansas City Star. Archived from the original on December 1, 2004. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ Miller, Mike (February 2010). "Peregrine Honig's Widow a First for Art Publisher Landfall Press". Archived from the original on September 14, 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
  6. ↑ Krysa, Danielle (2014). Creative block : discover new ideas, advice and projects from 50 successful artists. San Francisco. pp. 156–159. ISBN   978-1-4521-1888-8. OCLC   862222110.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ↑ Jacobs, Emily (November 16, 2023). "Peregrine Honig's art show Player is her most personal artistic endeavor yet". The Pitch. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  8. ↑ Abbe, Mary (August 21, 2010). "Art meets reality: The television debut of Minnesota artist Miles Mendenhall sparked local debate". Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN). Retrieved May 3, 2022.
  9. ↑ "The Pews Went, but the Spirit Stayed in a Kansas City Church - The New York Times". The New York Times . May 8, 2018. Archived from the original on May 8, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2024.
  10. ↑ "Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Collection Search". Nelson-Atkins.org.
  11. ↑ "Peregrine Honig". The Art Institute of Chicago. 1976. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Peregrine Honig". Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
  13. 1 2 3 Reddy-Best, Kelly L.; Goodin, Dana; Streck, Kyra (May 23, 2020). "All is Fair in Love and Wear: Oral History".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ↑ "Finally, Some Bathroom Signs That Put An End To The Ridiculous Debate". Scary Mommy. August 25, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
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